Episode 36: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Joe and Seb are joined by writer, script editor and avid “Tweetnoter” Andrew Ellard to discuss Matthew Vaughn’s 2015 Kingsman: The Secret Service. How does the film stack up to the Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons comic on which it’s based? And, perhaps more pertinently, how does it stack up to the James Bond canon that it’s so clearly pitching as a postmodern take on? The resulting chat is so long that we actually had to cut out one of the news bits – so hopefully you’ll think it’s worth it…